UDub professor Trevor Gardner gave the following points about why tackling local marijuana laws will be difficult for the federal government under a
Trump administration:

Here are some of those points.

The federal government does not have ability to direct state and local police
Of 1.2 million law enforcement agents, only 80,000 are operating at federal level, which means in order for federal government to broadly enforce
marijuana prohibition it needs to cooperation of state and local police.
The DOJ prosecutes after arrests have been made by state and local police.

In the event Sessions does not have that cooperation, it will be difficult for them to prosecute and enforce the marijuana prohibition broadly in
decriminalization states.

Will have to say my first red flag. As the war on drugs has displaced thousands south of our border. bush and company (aka) cia have made millions.
Knowing weed has way more benificial uses than most pharmacies combined. Think i will retreat back into the trees perse as its starting to look alot
like a bush presidency minus asset forfeiture. Best people

In places with legal medical use, there is a lot of abuse of the system. When California did it, for example, a guy went around testing the system,
and docs who were set up to prescribe wold do so with no medical exam, nothing but someone asking for a scrip. Clearly, that's a problem.

After listening to the video of Sean Spicer at the news conference......I feel as though he was quite lenient in his stance. ..overall. He actually
indicated that medical marijuana would be left alone.....as far as recreational use. ....he can't be expected to stand there in the capacity that he
holds and say..." recreational use of marijuana is fine "

I believe his biggest concern is to not make it look like the government is supporting a drug use free for all. I don't blame him in that
regard.....the unfortunate truth is marijuana is caught up in a lot of the same circles as other more potent and dangerously addictive drugs.

I believe that as it does become more legal it will be separated more from these other drugs. Even if that is the case....it will take years for that
separation to grow to a point where the connection is no longer there. In the mean time it is important to keep kids from being exposed to the other
drugs. I think he probably sees that as the case....he just has to walk a fine line at the beginning stages.

MSM once again trying to put a spin on a statement,liberal's never let the truth get in way of a good story,only thing said was he would let states
vote on it,they are kind of like hoakster's that make fake Bigfoot video's ,except most Youtubers have more class

I disagree with the federal scheduling of Marijuana and the laws against it, but I am pretty big advocate of being a society of laws (I just wish that
they all made sense).

So, my opinion is that they either enforce the law, like they're saying that they're going to do, or change the scheduling of the substance and allow
its legality to be controlled by the states. Riding the middle ground of cherry-picking which laws we choose to either enforce or ignore is not
appropriate, and it was one of my biggest complaints about the Obama administration.

Don't like a law? Do the hard work to repeal or change it, but don't turn a blind eye and then leave the law on the books for someone else to deal
with.

This is the problem with Extreme Big-Government Superliberals - they think the federal government is there to limit freedoms and decide what types of
enjoyment are acceptable for people to partake in.

Sessions should have himself arrested, before he does too much damage. I don't know if he's just "jealous of our freedoms", or if he simply hates
freedom. Either way, he is very clearly with the terrorists.

ETA: oops, said Spicer, meant Sessions. Spicer is just the mouthpiece of the Enemies of Freedom.

i like trump policies for the most part but this one sucks somebody in big pharm behind this i am sure or maybe this is where they gonna get money for
wall from taxes on weed imports from mexico i.e. drug busts

In places with legal medical use, there is a lot of abuse of the system. When California did it, for example, a guy went around testing the system,
and docs who were set up to prescribe wold do so with no medical exam, nothing but someone asking for a scrip. Clearly, that's a problem.

It's only a problem because it's illegal to begin with, or because it requires a Doctor's authorization/prescription.

I disagree with the federal scheduling of Marijuana and the laws against it, but I am pretty big advocate of being a society of laws (I just wish that
they all made sense).

So, my opinion is that they either enforce the law, like they're saying that they're going to do, or change the scheduling of the substance and allow
its legality to be controlled by the states. Riding the middle ground of cherry-picking which laws we choose to either enforce or ignore is not
appropriate, and it was one of my biggest complaints about the Obama administration.

Don't like a law? Do the hard work to repeal or change it, but don't turn a blind eye and then leave the law on the books for someone else to deal
with.

Except recall a framer of the Constitution, Thomas Jefferson said it is our duty to ignore laws that are contrary to the Constitution. So following
every law without constitutional scrutiny, I just want the America back when you could say "it's a free country and I'll do what I'd like to." Look
at the show COPS from the 80s and very early 90s, watch in the shift in the late 90s/early 2000s and it accelerating to where it is today in the
2010s. It's horrible that we have fallen so far away from freedom, legalization is a step in that direction.

We have given far too much power to every level of law enforcement and the cartels. They work together to make more money and justify their purpose.
They're two sides of the same damn coin. The law men bust just enough to show they're working, justifying their salaries, equipment, and funding
while the cartels lose a little each year, but not enough to put them out of business, in fact quite the contrary they get bigger and bigger, plus
more violent. The legalization in CO, WA, and CA has put a huge dent in their business which used to consist in large part of marijuana. If it was
legalized federally, the states would legalize in domino effect and the cartels would be even further reduced. We'd still have to fight hard drugs,
but those should be illegal because of their damaging effects.

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